Information-extraction (IE) systems seek to distill semantic relations from naturallanguage text, but most systems use supervised learning of relation-speciﬁc examples and are thus limited by the availability of training data. Open IE systems such as TextRunner, on the other hand, aim to handle the unbounded number of relations found on the Web. But how well can these open systems perform? This paper presents WOE, an open IE system which improves dramatically on TextRunner’s precision and recall. ...

After studying chapter 4 you should be able to: Describe the basic IEEE 802.11 wireless security protections; define the vulnerabilities of open system authentication, WEP, and device authentication; describe the WPA and WPA2 personal security models; explain how enterprises can implement wireless security.

Chapter 15 - Designing effective organizations. After reading the material in this chapter, you should be able to: Describe the four characteristics common to all organizations, explain the difference between closed and open systems, define seven basic ways organizations are structured,...

Computer Security: Chapter 7 - Using Trust for Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) includes Access Control in Open Systems, Proposed Access Control Architecture, TERM server (Basic, Evidence Model, Architecture, Prototype TERM server).

Chapter 5 - LAN architecture. After studying this chapter you will be able to: Identify the seven protocol layers of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model, discuss the functional attributes of each layer of the Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model, understanding Putting Data on the Cable and Access Methods.

In this thesis we explore how knowledge management is performed in
open source projects. Open source projects are often perceived as informal,
even unmanaged. Still, they appear to manage knowledge acquisition
and sharing sufficiently well to successfully develop software in such
a distributed environment as the Internet. This thesis aims to explore
that apparent contradiction, and thus complement the currently limited
research in this field.

Good system administrators recognize problems long before anyone asks, "Hey, is the Internet down?" Nagios, an open source system and network monitoring tool, has emerged as the most popular solution for sys admins in organizations of all sizes. It's robust but also complex, and Nagios: System and Network Monitoring, 2nd Edition, updated to address Nagios 3.0, will help you take full advantage of this program.

Building Embedded Linux Systems shows you how to design and build your own embedded systems
using Linux® as the kernel and freely available open source tools as the framework. Written by an active
member of the open source community, the book is structured to gradually introduce readers to the
intricacies of embedded Linux, with detailed information and examples in each chapter that culminate in
describing how Linux is actually put on an embedded device.

Android Open Accessory is a new, simple, and secure protocol for connecting any microcontroller-empowered device to an Android smartphone or tablet. This Wrox guide shows Android programmers how to use AOA with Arduino, the microcontroller platform, to control such systems as lighting, air conditioning, and entertainment systems from Android devices. Furthermore, it teaches the circuit-building skills needed to create games and practical products that also take advantage of Android technology.

Using a series of web development examples, this book 'C Programming in Linux' will give you an interesting glimpse into a powerful lower-level world.
C is tight and spare and economical, and in the current world climate people who know C will ensure critical systems keep running.
A knowledge of C is now and has been for years a pre-requisite for serious software professionals and with the recent popularity and maturity of Open Systems this is even more true.

Architectural longevity (the changes in technology and fortune that the platform will undergo during the next three to five years)
•Availability of skills (from lower cost of ownership as well as lower inertia point of view)
•Level of integration required (the amount of system integration work the customer is required to do)

Building Embedded Linux Systems offers an in-depth, hard-core guide to putting together embedded systems based on Linux. Updated for the latest version of the Linux kernel, this new edition gives you the basics of building embedded Linux systems, along with the configuration, setup, and use of more than 40 different open source and free software packages commonly used.

Xen, the open source virtualization tool, is a system administrator's dream. Xen is a free, high-performance virtual machine monitor that lets you consolidate your hardware and finally put those unused cycles to use—without sacrificing reliability, performance, or scalability.
The Book of Xen explains everything you need to know in order to use Xen effectively, including installation, networking, memory management, and virtualized storage.

A systematic control design methodology is introduced for multi-input/multi-output stable
open loop plants with multiple saturations. This new methodology is a substantial improvement
over previous heuristic single-input/single-output approaches.
The idea is to introduce a supervisor loop so that when the references and/or disturbances are
sufficiently small, the control system operates linearly as designed.

Open source software is such an integral part of the Internet that is it safe to say that the
Internet wouldn’t exist as we know it today without it. The Internet never would have
grown as fast and as dynamically as it did without open source programs such as BIND,
which controls the domain name system; Sendmail, which powers most e-mail servers;
INN, which runs many news servers; Major Domo, which runs many of the thousands of
mailing lists on the Internet; and of course the popular Apache Web server. One thing for
sure is that the Internet is a lot cheaper due to open source...